The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THOMAS MAST, Of Harper's Weekly, and his
wife are making a tour of the South.
REV. SAM JONES is assisted in his Cincinnati
meetings by his brother. Rev. Joseph ]. Jones,
of Georgia, a tall. fine-lookng man, and an ex
celent talker
PiTTsBURG Chronicle Telegraph: A diminutive
negro who acts as deputy sheriff in a Georgia
county and attends to the hangings, is known
Familiarity as the little tie coon
A DR.. MoNRo, who is quoted by Dr. Louis
Jobert in his recent work on left-handedness,
says that after making extensive studies of the
physiological characteristics Of or: m nas he has
found among them 90 per cent. of lefrhanded
persons.
BOSTON POST 1t is said that man could
easily carry $4,000, 900 if the money was in
ten-thousand dollar bills It is worth while for
every man to know this, so as to be prepared for
an emergency.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH is to retire from the
Toronto Week on account of i'll health His
trip to England only distressed him. as he saw
the growing sentiment in favor of home rule
His friends say that he is engaged upon a work
that will bring him enduring fame"
LOUISVILLE Commercial: There comes we'll
defined rumor that the Rev. A. A. Willitts, pas.
tor of the Warren Memorial Church. is to resign
IN order that he may accept a Passionate at his
old home, Philadelphia Tine story goes that
his wife is anxious to return to the East.
BURDETTE: ''Why do you think you can be of
service to us2' asked the superintendent; .have
you ever had any experience in rairoading?
Did you ever work on rallroada" NO. said
the applicant; II never worked on railroad ex-
actly, but I've always done business on borrowed
capital and been in debt all my life." He was
appointed financial agent right away, without
examination.
One of the most eccentric rich men in New
York city is the venerable enjamin Richardson.
He is said to be worth So, 600, 900 or more but
lives in a small tumble down house in Harlem.
He holds mortgage for $500, 600 against one of
the most prominent insurance companies in the
city. Mr.. Richardson owns the historic Wash
ington coach, which he lets out whenever there
is demand for this revolutionary relic
Mr. I. ADoLPHUs TRoLLoPE, when acting as
the Italian correspondent Of a London paper,
once wanted to telegraph that Minister, in an
swering parliamentary question, had he'd But
the censorship would not allow such dispatch
to pass. So he simply teleeraphed that "the
statement of the Minister was so entirely at
variance with the facts that it is incredible he
could have uttered it.n This was allowed 10
pass. Of course, and the folks at the London end
of the wire understood it and translated it into
emphatic form.
THAT sensible woman, Queen Elizabeth. OF
Roumania, has just managed to procure an op-
portunity of hearing plain and wholesome truths
about herself after fashion usually denied to
royalties by the cringing courtiers who surround
them. Her Majesty. who devotes much Of he,
time to music, was so persistently assured by her
attendants that her voice was moro than equal
to that OF any prima donna that she began ia
consider whether she was justified in concealine
such talent IN the napkin. But before display